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  2. Theological virtues - Wikipedia

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    The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that faith, hope, and love (charity) "dispose Christians to live in a relationship with the Holy Trinity. They have God for their origin, their motive, and their object – God known by faith, hoped in, and loved for His own sake."

  3. Trinity - Wikipedia

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    A compact diagram of the Trinity, known as the "Shield of the Trinity" consisting of God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit (the Shield is generally not intended to be a schematic diagram of the structure of God, but it presents a series of statements about the correlation between the persons of the Trinity)

  4. Divinization (Christian) - Wikipedia

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    "The principle of the order founded by the incarnation of the Word is the deification of the creature, to make the creature one with the Creator, so that the creature may participate in the divine life, which is love, and in the divine blessedness, the eternal and infinite blessedness of the holy and ineffable Trinity, the one ever-living God.

  5. God in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The most usual depiction of the Trinity in Renaissance art depicts God the Father using an old man, usually with a long beard and patriarchal in appearance, sometimes with a triangular halo (as a reference to the Trinity), or with a papal crown, specially in Northern Renaissance painting. In these depictions, the Father may hold a globe or book ...

  6. Catholic theology - Wikipedia

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    Holy Trinity by Francesco Cairo (1607–1665) The Trinity refers to the belief in one God, in three distinct persons or hypostases . These are referred to as " the Father " (the creator and source of all life), "the Son " (which refers to Jesus ), and the Holy Spirit " (the bond of love between Father and Son, present in the hearts of humankind).

  7. Social trinitarianism - Wikipedia

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    So, the Trinity is composed of three distinct 'persons' or 'hypostases' which are in integral relation with one another. The Cappadocian Fathers outlined the traditional set of doctrines describing the relational character of the Trinity: the Father is the Father by virtue of begetting the Son; likewise the Son is the Son precisely by being ...

  8. Christianity - Wikipedia

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    [39] [40] [41] Important Africans who influenced the early development of Christianity include Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Cyprian, Athanasius, and Augustine of Hippo. The 7th-century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat ; Armenia was the first state to adopt Christianity as the state religion in the ...

  9. Trinitarianism in the Church Fathers - Wikipedia

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    Theophilus of Antioch is the earliest Church father documented to have used the word "Trinity" to refer to God.. Debate exists as to whether the earliest Church Fathers in Christian history believed in the doctrine of the Trinity – the Christian doctrine that God the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons sharing one homoousion (essence).